Colorado Mesa University has awarded Michael Brescia,

curator of ethnohistory at the Arizona State Museum and a faculty affiliate in the Department of History, the 2018 Wayne N. Aspinall Chair in History. Michael will spend three weeks next spring on the Grand Junction campus teaching a course on the intersection of law and history and will give a public lecture on his research into the living legacies of Spanish and Mexican natural resource law in the North American West. Congratulations, Michael!